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Washington, DC - 26 February 2021

1. Various of unveiling of building plaque that says, "Mary W. Jackson, NASA Headquarters'

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2.SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Jurczyk, Acting Administrator:

"All of us here today stand on the shoulders of heroes like Mary W. Jackson, who broke down barriers for women and for people of color in engineering and science. Without their contributions, NASA would not be a leader in space and aviation that it is today."

3. Tenbeete Solomon AKA Trap Bob, an artist and Wanda Jackson, granddaughter of Mary Jackson unveil a portrait of Mary W. Jackson made by Trap Bob for Jackson family

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Wanda Jackson, Granddaughter of Mary Jackson

"She was that mentor, that educator. She did influence a lot of people. There are a lot of individuals who went into the engineering department, who went into the mathematics department because of what she knew, because of what she taught, because of what she encouraged."

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Hampton, Virginia – 2 June 1977

5. STILL of engineer Mary W. Jackson at NASA's Langley Research Center

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Hampton, Virginia –  1958 (Exact date unknown)

6. STILL of engineer Mary W. Jackson at NASA's Langley Research Center

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NASA on Friday named its Washington headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency's first African American female engineer whose story was portrayed in the popular film "Hidden Figures."

Jackson started her NASA career in 1951 as part of a segregated unit of female mathematicians at what is now Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

The women did calculations during the early pre-computer days of the U.S. space program.

Their story was chronicled in a book and the 2016 film.

Jackson was later promoted to engineer and retired from NASA in 1985.

She died in 2005 at age 83.